Hats off — and indeed, specs off — to Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards who opted to
go for a forward piked 1½ somersault off the ten-metre platform and, with a
highly colourful but ultimately supper-ruining death on early-evening
television among the perfectly plausible outcomes, utterly nailed it. The
27.5 out of a possible 30 from the judges told its own story and represents
a score unlikely to be surpassed in the present series of Splash! —
unless, of course, Dom Joly has got something truly special in his locker
for next weekend that we don’t know about.